In the Deep South, it’s never too early to start talking about the “second religion” called football.

And that certainly applies to Louisiana Tech University for this year.

Although the 2012 season is still several months away, now is the time to start planning for the Bulldogs’ 12-game schedule that will kick off in late August against Texas A&M at Shreveport’s Independence Stadium.

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What started out like gloom and doom for Louisiana Tech University’s football team this season ended with a Christmas-like spirit.

When fans in Tech Nation reflect back on 2011, they’ll remember it in two different ways.

First, there was that sluggish start, one in which the Bulldogs lost four of their first five games and appeared to be relegated to the lower echelon of the Western Athletic Conference standings, just as various preseason prognosticators had predicted.

But with almost 50 percent of firefighters around the globe being affected by cardiovascular disease, there needs to be a way to ensure their safety.

A team of several professors and graduate students thought just that.

Louisiana Tech University Graduate Student Melissa Uftring, Tech Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology David Szmanski and several leading professors from around the country recently performed an experiment.

Anyone who doubts that education is a big deal in Lincoln Parish need only look to the emphasis placed on improving the area during the Ruston 21 planning sessions held several years ago.

Because of this emphasis, facilities providing kindergarten through 12th grade education and universities in the area have seen numerous upgrades and improvements throughout the past years. One such improvement has been the effort to create a closer bond between educators, parents, students, businesses and other volunteers in our community.

Take, for instance, the multi-parish law enforcement task force that conducted street operations in Lincoln, Union and Ouachita parishes this month. The three-night Operation Spring Fling ended in 160 arrests, along with the seizure of a variety of illicit drugs and nine firearms that officials say were used in illegal narcotics activities.

Most of the arrests — 100, to be exact — were for alleged drug crimes.